Cleaning Your #PowerBI Power Query Code
Over the weekend I found this nifty tool called Power Query Management Studio. Someone shared it on Twitter and you’ve...
2015-08-10
598 reads
SQL with Dustin Ryan
Twitter Analysis with #PowerBI & Plus One
Earlier this week Christopher Finlan put together this awesome Datazen dashboard using Plus One. Christopher has been doing a lot...
2015-08-07
698 reads
#PowerBI and #SSAS Tabular: A Natural Fit with the Power BI SSAS Connector
In late June last month, the Microsoft Power BI team released the Microsoft Power BI Analysis Services Connector. The Power...
2015-08-07
1,089 reads
Importing Excel Power View Dashboards into Power BI
If your organization is now a Power BI customer, congratulations. You’re now ready to create some very cool dashboards, integrate...
2015-08-04
1,093 reads
#PowerBI Tip: Use the Treemap, Column or Funnel Chart as a Colorful Slicer
Power BI Desktop has been out for GA for over a week now and some of the pro’s out there...
2015-08-03
1,588 reads
#PowerBI Fantasy Football Player Stats Dashboards for Download
Every year at Pragmatic Works some coworkers, including consultants, marketing staff, support team members, software development staff and project management,...
2015-08-01
1,555 reads
Three Best Practices for #PowerBI
Since the release of Power BI Desktop this past week, I’ve been really spending my extra time digging into the...
2015-07-31
1,233 reads
Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers